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  Jeeves and Wooster Vol 2 - A...

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest": Bertie Wooster is living the high life as an English gentleman in New York. But when he's instructed to look after young Wilmot, a fearful drip who just happens to be the son of the fearsome Lady Malvern, matters become jolly complicated jolly quickly. And for some reason, Bertie's valet, Jeeves, refuses to be of any help at all. What's to be done?  
  "Leave it to Jeeves": Has Jeeves let his master down? Bertie's attempts to play cupid result in the most atrocious misunderstanding, and it's all because he took Jeeves' advice! Now the happiness of Bertie's pal Corky hangs in the balance, and his latest portrait is... well, let's just say it's not quite up to snuff. Jeeves will have to exert the old cerebellum to its fullest extent to get the chaps out of this pickle.

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  The Seabird's Cry - The Lives...

  Adam Nicolson

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  "Sounding appropriately David Attenborough-esque, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart narrates this in-depth look at the lives of 10 species of seabirds." — AudioFile MagazineLife itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory.Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird’s cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world.Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.

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  Dorian (NHB Modern Plays)

  Oscar Wilde

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  Dorian Gray – handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic – sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous...
  Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was a succès de scandale on its publication in 1891, accused of violating the laws of public morality. It immediately captured the minds of its readers, the spirit of the age, and the soul of a man with nothing to declare but his genius.
  This thrilling stage adaptation by Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Owen Horsley follows one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction, intertwined with Wilde's own life story, his tragic persecution, and ultimate imprisonment in Reading Gaol. Its first full production premiered at Reading Rep Theatre in October 2021.

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  My Baby First Birthday

  Jenny Zhang

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  Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism.The magic trick in this book is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.

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  New is Winter

  Mike Blake

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  NEW IS WINTER - *****Its a poem about the first few months of a childs life,when it encounters the Winter snows for the first time in its new life.The initial joy of Winter which we all share as Adults - snowballs, snowmen,the sheer beauty of a Winters day across a landscape.But as the young child starts to experience a little more....*To see more Poems by the same Author please click theLink HERE: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00SG40RM8***** leave your Review/feedback, many thanks. *****To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks. https://www.facebook.com/mike.cco1 I will then contact the Author your behalf. or onTwitter: miko_1_dollar ~ Tumblr : ccobes ~Instagram: wild_poetrys // wild.poetry.websTikTok: wild_poetrysFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/New.Poets.CornerWoW :: https://www.facebook.com/wow.fact/www.wild-poetry.com

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  George Bernard Shaw: Arms And...

  Shaw George Bernard

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  Arms and the Man is a satirical drama play written by George Bernard Shaw published in 1898.  It has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets. He delightfully pops the bubble of the 'brave soldier' always wishing to charge into battle and shows (I think) how people stay the same whether in uniform or not and are not magically changed into different people. A cautious soldier can be just as admirable as a reckless one.

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